Archive for May, 2008
May 23, 2008 at 10:43 am · Filed under General
At the risk of being called and ‘HTML Programmer’, I noticed something important in the blogosphere
today. It’s some news about one of the biggest warts with HTML is the layout system. HTML has
notoriously bad design for the layout system. There isn’t a lot of symetry in the block vs. inline system. (Tables, although
still useful and good, have the ability to be defined with ambiguous meanings. Even worse!).
At any rate, the news is that they now support the ‘inline-block’ and ‘inline-table’ for the CSS ‘display’ attribute on HTML elements.
Before this fix, one had to use ugly float hacks to accomplish the same effect. It was always one of those things that when
I tried to pull something off, the browser would render in an ugly and broken way.
This is awesome, so awesome that I had to blog about it. Once they roll out Firefox3 in large numbers, it means that all major browsers
will support his feature. So, HTML still sucks… but it will suck a little less.
Here are some good links to help you visualize this ‘technology’
Mozilla Developer Center – CSS Improvements in Firefox 3
Ajaxian’s Take on these Features
May 23, 2008 at 10:00 am · Filed under General
Tod blogged about our mention in the
WSJ today. We threw down the gauntlet on rich media fees! Go check the post out.
May 23, 2008 at 9:57 am · Filed under General
Ok, I’ve been waiting for this… DPReview has posted the full review of the Canon EOS450D.
They give their typical fickle review, but the cat is out of the bag. The camera
delivers very, very high quality for an entry level DSLR. If you consider
this review, past reviews, and the experiences of other Canon owners…
I think it is safe to say that this is the camera I will get.
May 20, 2008 at 1:51 pm · Filed under General
Here is something I didn’t know… Mork and Mindy was a spinoff of the 50’s show… Happy Days.
The series was a spinoff of the sitcom Happy Days. The character of Mork first appeared in the season 5 episode, “My Favorite Orkan,” where he threatened to take Richie Cunningham back to Ork as an example of a human, but his plan is foiled by Fonzie.
Happy Days was set in the 50’s. Mork and Mindy was set in the 1978.
Weird.
May 14, 2008 at 12:23 pm · Filed under General
Malapropism
I was reading an article about the economy, and they were discussing the current
’speak’ from the top talking heads (the major banks and the fed). The writer
brought in the old quote from Yogi Berra… “it ain’t over till it’s over’.
This reference led me to research Mr. Berra on Wikipedia. He is quite a figure, and still with us. They had his famous
quotes on there, which are gems. For some reason, though, I thought he was more
prolific, but there were only 5 or 6 ‘famous quotes’ listed.
So why malapropism? Well, it is because it was stated that Mr. Berra “has a tendency
for malapropism.”
There you go.
May 9, 2008 at 1:07 pm · Filed under General
Citigroup to Shed $500B in assets
hip tip, if you have to shed assets… they probably weren’t really assets in the first place
May 6, 2008 at 2:02 pm · Filed under General
Just a quick recommendation. We were using Websitepulse as one of our extra, external monitoring systems.
They consistently failed to alert us to issues (when the other systems worked). Yet, we were paying them
around $80 a month. For a simple task, they should have been able to excel at the task. With all of their
customers, they should have quite a margin to pay for network and infrastructure. Yet they failed.
This just goes to show… you always have overlap whenever possible when dealing with outside vendors.
May 6, 2008 at 1:58 pm · Filed under General
Steve sent me this a few weeks back…
Atari Catalog from 1981
The above catalog was the first one I saw. To an 11 year old brain, the possibilities of that machine for fun
seemed as amazing as those illustrations.
Atari Catalog from Late 1981 – on Flickr
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